Holograph, signed

Title devised by cataloger

Manuscript is composed on stationary bearing the typeset letterhead of the "Office of the Superintendent of Metropolitan Police, 300 Mulberry Street"

John Alexander Kennedy writes William Lloyd Garrison to express his "debt of gratitude" for Garrison's decades of services "rendered to the cause of humanity", and to offer his apologies to Garrison for his tardiness in acknowledging this indebtedness. Kennedy states that it is difficult for him to separate Garrison from his "early friend Benjamin Lundy", exclaiming that he rarely recalls Lundy's memory without invoking that of Garrison as well. Kennedy lauds Garrison and Lundy on their early recognition of the role that slave-holders themselves had to play in emancipation, and for their efforts to convert them to abolitionism, noting that though it ended in the "slaveholder's Rebellion", their labor was fulfilled

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